Shawne Merriman on the NFL's new rules, Deshaun Watson & the Cleveland Browns defense

himself Sean marman one of our favorite football guests to bring on the show Sean you got a big fight coming up this weekend man I know wein are tomorrow and this look like a hell of a card you guys got set up here well it's gonna be a fight again if if he if he says he's he was good in football when I come on so uh damn is he talking about [Laughter] me hey look what before when I came on I was like every time somebody talk about somebody else good you know he jumping in that right we like nobo

dy else gonna have that shine without everybody knowing how good he was man so listen I I didn't have my own dance you know you fun fact I never recorded a sack but do you know if I did I had my my sack dance ready you know that I was go I was gonna go ching ching and then I was go so you you going to steal mine and can new at the same time I feel you got to listen when you see something good you got to put them together and make it your own spin yo no for sure man yeah no we got it we got a hug

e fight coming up this Saturday uh lights out extreme fight 15 we got 18 fights this this is the biggest card we've ever had in the history of the company nice um and I'm I'm excited about this one man you see Danny Ramirez there Richie palino is our main event these guys invest they gonna get after it um another one to look at the co-main event W you guys watch this kid Lazaro Valdez uh Cuban Hunter this guy like I don't know how long I'm gonna be able to keep him he might be with us for a figh

t or two before he head to the UFC um that that's gonna be a big one Gilbert nakatani there is is on his card as well we're stacked up man this this is our our biggest card in fact um we got like four hours on football sports football TV this Saturday so you guys got football 6 6 PM Pacific check us out uh we're lined up probably not probably this is our biggest biggest C we've ever had well I can watch it I actually just got fubo about a month ago because it's the only way I could watch the Gua

rdians game so now I got all the extra extra fubo sports channels so there you go I'm locked in I need to switch dud gotta get the fubo foo's good I like it uh Sean I'm curious speaking of sack dances when you were you know a kid who who had the your favorite sack dance I remember for me as a kid I liked even though I wasn't a Jets fan I like the New York sack exchange and Mark gasto I remember him he had the great yeah as to know was good um I used to like Derek Thomas's uh his big swing you kn

ow remember the big swing at the bat he used to have um there was a couple guys man I I think that would just have have some really cool sack that I think I think during that mid 2000s for me like the time I played was the coolest when you know mine and Jared Island you had Demarcus we with the slam so I think that became more of a thing gasto was was the one started this thing out right he's the one that kind of put the the the stamp on sack dances and and really got the influence of me and and

a lot of us yeah did Lawrence Taylor have one I don't remember him so I can't remember I remember no yeah Lawrence Taylor didn't have one um that there was a you know there was a bunch of dances man there just I don't think sack dances became a big thing until 2000 right um what was what was a d tackle there that played uh actually I I almost broke his record to play for the D tackle um God slipped slipped my mind but he you know he had a he had a really good sack dance but I don't think sack d

anc has got big man until the mid 2000s Sean I got a bone to pick with you oh boy no it's serious so so listen to me the the NFL does the the hip drop tackle right and and they and I'm on Twitter or X and I see all the reactions and then I see Sean marman say it's not that bad you know this is it improves our game how can you sit there as a former defensive guy knowing that they doing this to us making it offensive heavy and actually applaud them for doing such a thing they putting us at a disse

rvice and you and you agree with that you you you know what that comes from man to be quite honest is and I really do for I feel bad for these your know defensive players because there's so many rules already and this just seemed like another one but I said before I think the NFL got this one right if if it wasn't so many other rules and and stuff that that doesn't make any sense I get it the helmet the helmet stuff but you can't hit a quarterback belove above his shoulder pass but below his wai

st there's I mean there's so many other rules that don't make any sense but you got to understand with this hip drop tackle man the the percentages of you getting hurt the percentages of bad happening and more importantly man the runner can't stop he can't stop it right he it's nothing he can't he couldn't even drop to his knees and go straight to the ground because guess what somebody's full somebody's body another 210 220 plus pound guy is dropping his weight his all his weight on the back of

your legs and there's nothing you can do about it so in in my way man I love look I'm I'm the hit you in the mouth guy right so I know when I said that everybody was like what do you mean light out said I said no look with this tackle in particular the the guy's defenseless he can't do anything about it so so you got to take it out because he can't protect himself in no way shape or form so that that's is people making a big deal about this is because all the other rules not this one yeah see I

disagree all right I disagree cuz naturally on a on a slant Sean as a DB when they run a slant and I go make that tackle I'm going drop my hips cuz I got to get him down on the ground like that's just how it goes yeah no look I don't know other way I don't understand any other way to get him down the the the DBS man the DB I I get a little bit more from from that standpoint and why that has to happen like I I get that because the weight issue you got a big like when Andrews went down I think it

was a DB that tackled them I believe it was yeah I think TI yeah tit and Andrews went down so the DB you're unmatched sizewise but what I don't really agree with is guys having that intention to having to go and do that because look if a guy gets an extra yard look you want to stop him and get by any means necessary I do I do still have that mentality stop a guy by any means necessary but there is a standpoint man where a guy can not protect himself running as fast as he is there's over a 90% ch

ance that something's G to happen and it that have to be a major uh injury but a guy is leaving the game from that tackle man so I never really that one I just we have look we have greates Man Bo Jackson right what what what Bo Jackson would have been without those type of tackles you know completely yanked this hip out of the socket so this is my thing man I I just think that getting rid of that one tackle was good for the game ultimately game of Interest Sean game of Interest all I'm me tell y

ou it's game of Interest yeah that's that's what the DB say when they don't want to tackle but it's all good man I'm not even Sean what do you think of the Browns last year the Browns defense Jim schwarz's impact on that and I think a lot of people were left with a bad taste in their mouth the way they had ended against Houston there was an awful performance in that playoff game but just in general your thoughts on where the Browns are and and the direction they're going defensively and overall

as a team look defensively it always makes you feel good because you got a top I would say top three player defensive player in football in Miles Garrett right so everything starts and and finishes with him and his capabilities now they had a lot of injuries they had a lot of injuries last year really on both sides of the ball they had a lot of injuries and so for them to even still be in that position so I'm looking at the everything in in hindsight and people not really paying attention to the

maneuvering the the filling in the blanks the guys having to step up and still finding ways to win they they were one of the most injured teams in the NFL last year yeah and they found a way to still get to where they were so I know everybody going to say oh you know they didn't play well in you know against the Texans and all the bad stuff you got to think Nick Nick chub went down right you don't you don't have you don't have Nick y the I would say top three running back in football maybe mayb

e possibly the best he goes down you got defensive players that's gone down and you still find a way to get there man that's a hell of a job by the coaching um staff that's a hell of a job by you know the Personnel staff and finding guys to bring in and bring out and find ways to still win football games so there's a lot of upside man in Cleveland the problem the the problem that you have with with a team like Cleveland is there people in the division that's getting better too and that's that's

the issue that they're going to have going forward it's not them I think they got a solid team got a really good team actually but you got teams that they're playing with in their division playing against in their division who's who's getting a lot better Sean I'm curious you know the Browns defense obviously teams are you know generally better at home but the extreme difference for the Browns defense homman road is is like crazy we have the stats here let's bring this up I mean look at that dif

ference they gave up they gave up 17 and a half more points per game at on the road and all the numbers across the board it's not a little different I mean it is a massive difference how how do you explain where at home they're like an all-time Elite defense and on the road they're terrible that look that that's no coincidence that's no coincidence and typically when something like that happens they need to start switching up their their regimen their their preparation um that me you know instal

l instilling a different mentality when they go on a road we had this thing where we we thrived on on being a Road Warriors right we we used to actually uh you know before the games or before we go there we say we're gonna go on your house go on your refrigerator eat what we want put our foot up on your table right that's that was our that's what our mentality was when we went on a road like we're going to your house go on your fridge sit down on your couch and put our feet up that and so you th

at's a mentality that they have to instill with those guys in order to fix that and if they don't fix that with that team that they have it's going to be a major problem because that means you got to win out that mean you got to show out at home all the time you can't have any slip UPS no matter what Sean Desa Watson has not played at a consistently high level since he's been in Houston in in 2020 so it's been three years that he's either been suspended sitting out hurt or you know not very effe

ctive how confident are you that he can get back his career back on track at this point I I I think this is a make or break year for him right it it just has to be because the contract that he got the contract that he received you know forget what you think about all the stuff he went through off the field he didn't play right so so anybody who hasn't been on the field and still get reward at that cont cont was already risky enough forget all the other stuff he had for a second um but the other

that hasn't been on the field and so you go and make this jump and and and and you the Browns are the ones who set the market for quarterbacks think about that he they he he said they set the entire market for for Dak Prescott that's coming back up right now they set the market for Lamar Jackson they set the market for um you know Josh Allen and barl he set the market and so if you think about that and see how those guys are performing and seeing how he's performing that's where the issue lies a

nd so this is a make a break year for him um you know and outside of all the things he dealt with Al the field when you're talking about him as a football player this may be it somebody taking another chance on him because I don't think there was going to be anybody in NFL that made made the jump and take that risk like the Browns have and I don't think there's going to be another one if he can't get it done Sean there's been a bunch of moves across the NFL this year um as far as offseason trade

s and Acquisitions what's been your favorite one and that you was like you know what that team is special now man um I mean the most recent one I I think it was a great move by the Texans and getting getting uh um Stefon dicks I I think that people understand how um how crucial that's going to be this this is a Texans team who who's already was at that at that level where they where they contend now it really put them in contention um and so because he went to Maryland get a little bit U no no j

ust Jing I it was the most recent one but I think um you know ultimately man there's been a lot of uh there's been a lot of crazy not additions but subtractions this year that they got their teams just let cut or they moved on from um you know you look at the bills and you talk I'm talking you just kind of stick with that with that trade that happened look at the bills and how many guys got let go and moved on and they I mean they got 10 to 12 guys that's gone off of that roster now who was acti

ve last year in starters crazy um I would think the the craziest moves this off season was the no moves by Dallas Cowboys you know mean I'm like they they they have done absolutely nothing in the off season no and and you know think about it you're you're you're we just talked about teams getting better in your in your division that's what the brown that's what the Browns is going to have to deal with coming up because teams in their division just got better that's what's happening in Dallas if

the commanders go out and get themselves a franchise quarterback they're in trouble they they're in trouble because now they brought in Bobby Wagner and brought in all these vets they already had a wide receiver back there they got a running game they brought in Austin Eckler they got a great one-w punch in there they got some offensive linemen brought in some defensive linemen so the Cowboys going to have problems because you're not making any offseason moves so um that this this offseason's be

en kind of kind of wild and to see what's happened so far I don't even know who the starting running back for the Cowboys is right now it's Turpin dandre Turpin oh my God take a running back in the draft Yeah okay but but but guys think about this I don't know if you saw it either today or yesterday came out they never called Derk Henry Derk Derk Henry actually was looking to go to the Cowboys he was hoping they called him yeah and for what the ra what the Ravens got him for you telling me that

the Cowboys wouldn't sign him to a two-year deal for what 16 million 17 million what that's for derck Henry you talk that's peanuts and so for them not even to pick up the phone and call and you guys don't even y'all didn't even know who was the qu back back there that's a that's a bad sign yeah and Jerry what's funny is Jerry Jones at the beginning of the offseason said the Cowboys were all in this year and as you said Sean you're right they haven't done anything they hav signed one added one s

ignificant they got to save the money for for Dak and Michael Parsons okay and uh and CD lamb yeah CD yeah but who do they got beside CD lamb brand uh no uh Brandon CS he's all right but he's old Sean what do you think of the uh Harbaugh signing in in LA new change of face change of direction for the Chargers you know you know what's crazy about that um you realize how much he moves a needle because the excitement of that fan base in organization hasn't been like this I would say almost until si

nce I played so you know you had Anthony Lon was there for what four or five years you had um you know uh Brandon um Staley who was there for what three or so years I I don't think they had this this level of excitement in a decade and one thing about Jim H we all know this is that he comes in and he makes changes right away like this is not a rebuilding situation for him because he's had worse programs and worse organizations he came in and done a hell of a job with and he's done it within the

year and so we know right now him having a franchise quarterback and Justin Herbert having you know they're G to draft the wide receiver they're gonna get um you know Marvin Harrison Jr or neighbors you know one they're going to draft one of the two you know khil Mack Joey Bosa just re just restructured the contract and resigned Derwin James is still there so you look at this team and what what Jim hog is W is walking into that that was a match made in heaven I don't think it could have went any

other way man I don't think they could have got another another coach that was out there Sean Let's uh before we let you go tell us about the fight again everybody can watch it on fubo of course right tell us or not just one fight but a whole bunch of fights great card yeah yeah we got get a whole whole bunch of whole bunch of fights uh Saturday April 6 this Saturday uh we'll be live on football TV football sports starting at 600 p.m. Pacific um this is going to be massive man I think this is a

this is a big big card for a couple reasons I think we got a couple guys in this card who I think are going to go straight to the UFC maybe after this fight maybe one more fight uh with us but that this Co co- Main Event these last four I'm sorry last five fights on this card are massive we you know we I single-handedly kind of stepped in to start helping my matchmaker put some of these guys together together and I think that um you know this is this is the biggest car we've had in the history

of the company this Saturday everybody check it out I'll be watching thanks Sean